Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-07-22


have been lost. It is reported chat the
mining towns Of Mountain City and York
will be nearly destroyed.
The sensational divorce case Of Emm ]
Arthur against Rev. C, NJ. Arthur OF d.
kota ended at GAINESVILLE, Wis, and de-
cree was granted.
President Fitzgerald, of the Irish league,
cabled Mr.. Parnell, saying that as the first
shot in opposition to the coercion act,
Treasurer O'Reilly RENTS $4,000 to help
the evicted tenants.
A band OF Kickapoo Indians take pos
sessi on OF south St. Louis, and for time
have things all their own way.
Robert Hartley and Mrs. I.eyle were
drowned in the Delaware at Philadelphia.
An observer writes from Racine that Rev.
George Haddock's grave is utterly neglect
ed, and the earth is sinking beneath the
level of the surrounding surface.
The sloop mystery with party OF forty
excursionists capsized off Barren Island,
New York, and 80 persons were drowned.
John Young, Brigham Young's youngest
son by his first wife, has family OF ten
sons and ten daughters, and is forty three
years old.
Henry S. Burk, one OF the best known
farmers OF St. Joseph, near Hudson, Wis,
died very suddenly OF cholera morbus. Mr..
Burk was the principal in the great
real estate litigation at Duluth.
At Watertown. OAK, a switchman named
Charles Larson was killed in the yard OF
the Northwestern Railway company.
Rev. w. H. Hare, bishop OF South d.
kota, administered the rite OF confirmation
to q class OF four at Trinity Episcopal
church, Watertown Oak, before large
congregation.
The steamer Merrimac, from Halifax for
Boston, is ashore on Little Hope island,
some miles off Liverpool, N. s. The pas
sengers 100 in number all got ashore.
The Baltimore Morning Herald publishes
q contribution giving an account OF recent
interviews with Jefferson Davis. Mr..
Davis charges that the Federal govern
ment conspired during the late war to have
him assassinated.
Father John Rogers, the Oldest priest in
New Jersey, died at New Brunswick, aged
seventy-nine years.
Rev. DR.. j. Seldom Kennard OF Chicago
has received call to the Baptist church
at Sing Sing, N. Y.
The Milwaukee & St. Paul has issued q
circular relating to the shipment OF freight
W I'LL 1dlCSs cApOblVlOA6 OI SuUCdUlO Dis,
sociations in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin,
Minnesota and Dakota. All freight destin-
ed to any OF these places will be charged
full rates to the fair, but returned at half.
rates on certificate OF the secretary, within
ten days from the close OF the fair. Race
horses are expected.
A Ore at Chicago, starting in William
Re,ser's saloon on Milwaukee avenue, de.
stroyed $4,000 worth of property. To
escape the flames Mr.. Reiser jumped from
the second story window and was fatally
injured.
The Episcopal church and other build.
ings at Xenia, Ohio, were burned. Loss
$40, 900.
Ex.Congressman Standiford OF Ken.
Gen. Walter c. Whitaker died at his
home in Kentucky.
Receiver John MeNulta, of the Wabash
Eastern railway, has decided to ignore Sec
tion OF the Interstate law so lar as it ap.
plies to traffic over his lines from Peoria
or Chicago to the east.
a largo and rich vein OF hematite ore has
been discovered at Big Bend, Wis. g.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has been for
hidden by her doctor to do any literary
work, and she will rest for the summer at
her home in East Gloucester, Mass.
The July government report is very IA
vorable as to corn, but disheartening as to
wheat. Ee T. .-..t
Postoffice officials have intimated that
there will be o strong effort made IN the
next congress to extend the system OF mer-
ehandise in the mails, or the parcels post
system. ..'
No new filings on indemnity lands have
been accepted at the Benson land office.
There are reports OF good many inves.
LEGATIONS tho coming winter, and IL con.
congress may rival that OF 1876 for the
number and bitterness of it's investiga-
tions. E -"..~
It is ascertained that there has been a
misunderstanding as to the authority OF
the accounting officers to examine the &C
counts OF Bacon, the financial clerk OF the
patent office, recently deceased. The law
Riyes one Of the auditors Of the treasury
the right to examine the books at any
time. and the books are required to be al
ways open to him. 49,
The Post in commenting upon the Gov
entry elections again urges upon the gov.
eminent the necessity Tor stronger meas
Gres with regard to Ireland and an official
coalition between the Conservatives and
s Unionists.
81 The parnellltes Will fercely oppose the
Irish land bill az purely landlord meas
ure. a + .z.
II ID now the purpose Of the president,
when he leaves Washington, to 60 direct
~ to Holland Patent, N. Y, where he
viii make q short visit with his sister,
after which he win 20 to Clinton, which is
hut short distance from Holland Patent.
The day Of Wednesday will bs spent at
Clinton at the centennial celebration.
The passengers Of the wrecked steamer
Merrimac claim to have been robbed BY q
drunken crew.
Mr.. Carnegie explains the Edinburgh
council chamber incident, and declares
that NJ. Blaine is overwhelmed with kind
attentions.
3 BrookA Yankton: original, A Bart.